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UNITED STATES MARK GQOPER, ()F SPARTANBUBG, SOUTH CAROLINA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed July 27, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARK COOPER, of Spartanburg, in the county ofSpartanburg and State of South Carolina, have invented certainImprovements in Flows; and I hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-'-Figure l is a perspective view of. the plow. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection. Figs. 3 and 4 are details to be referred to. Fig. 5 is amodificatiou.

My invt ntion consists in the combination of devices, as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my intention, Iwill proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A represents the beam of the plow, B the standard,and G the landside and back brace.

The standard is constructed of two bars, a a, which lie parallel, and attheir lower ends are curved slightly forward to conform to the curvatureof the plow D. A short distance below the. beam a bolt, d, holds thepieces a. a together. Above the beam the piece a is bent down over thetop of the beam at right angles,

is made of a flat metal bar, 00, which is bent at the center to form aloop, and leaving the root Patent No. 247,989, dated October 4, 1881,

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angular portion 2' to rest against the under side a bolt, 7a, whichpasses through it and the beam, and is secured by means of a nut, is.The two halves are then brought down to a point, I, where they are bentinto a horizontal position, as showmand carried forward until they passbetween the lower ends of the bars a a, and are secured to the. ends ofsaid bars, together with an intervening solid shoe 01" piece, L, bymeans of bolt h. At the bend lanother bolt secures the shoe L to the twolaps of the metal slot, 11:, between the shoe L and the beam between thesides of the back brace. In this slot moves or is fitted the shank of agrass-cutter, N, which is secured at any desired height by means of anut, 19.

Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of my device, wherein the back braceand landsidc are made of one single solid piece of iron instead of withthe double bars, as shown in the other illustrations.

Having thus described myinvcntion, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The plow-standard constructed of the pieces a d, the piece a being bentat right angles above the beam, and passing through'the perferation inthe-upper end of piece a, in combibolt h, all constructed and operatedas and for the purpose'sct forth.

t MARK COOPER. Witnesses:

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bar at. This construction leaves a long open of the beam, to which it issecured by means of 40 nation with and clasping the beam A and the

